11 station records on 16 December 1908 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.
Weather records on 16 December 1908: highest significance records shown on the map
Station
Country
Type
Value
Significance
Uppsala_Aut
Sweden
Record high minimum temperature
3.4 C (38.1 F)
24 of 100 (Routine)
Deniliquin (Wilkinson St)
Australia
Record high minimum temperature
22.8 C (73.0 F)
16 of 100 (Routine)
Windsor Riverside
Canada
Record high maximum temperature
8.3 C (46.9 F)
15 of 100 (Routine)
Melbourne Regional Office
Australia
Record high minimum temperature
22.8 C (73.0 F)
13 of 100 (Routine)
Santa Fe
United States
Record high maximum temperature
10.6 C (51.1 F)
13 of 100 (Routine)
Stratford
Canada
Record daily snowfall
10.2 cm (4.0 in)
9 of 100 (Routine)
Caledon (Pol)
South Africa
Record daily precipitation
8.1 mm (0.32 in)
8 of 100 (Routine)
San Diego Wbo
United States
Record low maximum temperature
13.9 C (57.0 F)
3 of 100 (Routine)
Baltimore Customs House
United States
Record high minimum temperature
7.8 C (46.0 F)
3 of 100 (Routine)
Philadelphia City
United States
Record high minimum temperature
5.6 C (42.1 F)
3 of 100 (Routine)
Washington
United States
Record high minimum temperature
6.7 C (44.1 F)
3 of 100 (Routine)
Counts by Type and Timescale
11 records
Records set or tied on 16 December 1908 by type: Highest daily maximum 2, Lowest daily maximum 1, Highest daily minimum 6, Heaviest daily rainfall 1, Heaviest daily snowfall 1.
Records on 16 December 1908 by type
Record type
Records
Highest daily maximum
2
Lowest daily maximum
1
Highest daily minimum
6
Lowest daily minimum
0
Heaviest daily rainfall
1
Heaviest daily snowfall
1
Deepest snow cover
0
Records on 16 December 1908 by timescale: all-time 0, monthly 0, daily 11.
Records on 16 December 1908 by timescale
Timescale
Records
all-time
0
monthly
0
daily
11
How Much Records Were Beaten By
7 broken records
Margins by which the 7 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 23.0. Ties are not counted.
Histogram of margins by which records were beaten on 16 December 1908
Margin
Records
0 to 5
6
5 to 10
0
10 to 15
0
15 to 20
0
20 to 25
1
Top 20 by Significance
16 December 1908
Top 11 records on 16 December 1908 by significance
Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.
The Same Date in Other Years
1793 to 1908
1908
Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1793 to 1908. 1908 had 11 records.
Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.
Records on 12-16 in each year
Year
Records
1793
2
1798
2
1808
1
1810
1
1814
2
1815
2
1835
1
1839
1
1840
1
1846
3
1852
1
1853
1
1859
3
1864
1
1869
1
1870
1
1872
1
1876
1
1877
1
1878
2
1879
1
1885
2
1886
2
1888
2
1889
1
1890
4
1891
2
1892
3
1893
1
1894
1
1895
1
1896
7
1897
4
1898
1
1899
2
1900
2
1901
4
1902
17
1903
6
1904
8
1905
4
1906
5
1907
30
1908
11
1909
5
1910
38
1911
26
1912
31
1913
12
1914
26
1915
55
1916
31
1917
60
1918
33
1919
52
1920
61
1921
35
1922
62
1923
205
1924
347
1925
93
1926
130
1927
218
1928
338
1929
383
1930
398
1931
168
1932
880
1933
716
1934
163
1935
71
1936
429
1937
351
1938
142
1939
1,014
1940
633
1941
348
1942
550
1943
491
1944
189
1945
478
1946
357
1947
506
1948
775
1949
132
1950
272
1951
987
1952
349
1953
265
1954
305
1955
325
1956
650
1957
478
1958
497
1959
605
1960
393
1961
858
1962
859
1963
484
1964
639
1965
576
1966
417
1967
886
1968
557
1969
205
1970
726
1971
1,540
1972
1,020
1973
823
1974
546
1975
493
1976
526
1977
950
1978
532
1979
528
1980
1,322
1981
1,498
1982
1,208
1983
1,156
1984
1,944
1985
983
1986
485
1987
1,377
1988
605
1989
3,181
1990
753
1991
659
1992
1,408
1993
676
1994
698
1995
714
1996
797
1997
1,260
1998
698
1999
821
2000
1,160
2001
1,197
2002
990
2003
679
2004
510
2005
1,073
2006
1,020
2007
1,301
2008
2,049
2009
1,032
2010
1,585
2011
777
2012
912
2013
762
2014
465
2015
925
2016
1,588
2017
349
2018
624
2019
786
2020
415
2021
1,485
2022
836
2023
841
2024
755
2025
1,820
Download the Data
Data for records on 1908-12-16: CSV or JSON. Field meanings are on the data page.
Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-14 (14 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.